Revamped AdSchool gears up for 2021 with stellar line-up of lecturers
AdSchool, Australia’s most respected advertising education resource, returns in 2021 with a comprehensively refreshed range of courses led by a stellar line-up of ad industry leaders providing a combination of in-real-life and online lectures, workshops and mentoring...
Planning for 2021 and Beyond
ACA recently caught up with APG Co-Chair Ben Hourahine, Strategy Partner at AnalogFolk, for a chat about his take on what 2021 holds for the Australian planning community. ACA: What’s your perspective on the future of planning in Australia? Ben: Australian...
‘Enter Raw, Exit Ready’ AWARD School kicks off 2021 enrolment campaign
Australasia’s most acclaimed course for aspiring creatives, AWARD School has kicked off its campaign for 2021 enrolments with a new theme: ‘Enter Raw, Exit Ready’. The campaign is rolling out across multiple channels in the lead up to AWARD School 2021, run from March...
Youngbloods pitch for Gruen glory
Once again this year Youngbloods Australia were invited back onto ABC TV’s Gruen to compete for Pitch glory. However, unlike Youngbloods Gruen pitches in previous seasons, it wasn’t to be the traditional battle between VIC vs. NSW. Due to the COVID restrictions placed...
Planning community looks beyond COVID
It’s been one hell of a year right across the industry and few would argue that planners have faced massive challenges. But it’s not all doom and gloom. Advertising Council Australia chatted with Account Planning Group Co-Chair Kate Smither about planning in the COVID...
Communication is the key: Cornel Ozies
Filmmaker Cornel Ozies’ landmark documentary Our Law focuses on the Warakurna Police Station in Western Australia, the first Indigenous-run police station in this country. It’s a compelling story of how an initiative based on mutual respect can address the issues of...
ACA WA reaches out to uni students
Advertising Council Australia has recently been conducting a number of university presentations in-person and online in Perth to help promote advertising as a career of choice and to guide students to the best pathways to “Break into the Exciting World of...
Introducing something else…from AWARD
By Jonathan Kneebone, Writer/Director, The Glue Society on behalf of the AWARD Committee It was on a work trip to Hong Kong that a few of us from Glue Society discovered the most difficult product you could ever think of to advertise. Sitting innocently enough on the...
2020 Australian Effie Award Winners Announced
The Monkeys named Effective Agency of the YearBMF awarded Grand Effie for ‘ALDI Good Different’ - ALDI AustraliaALDI Australia awarded Effective Advertiser Award for the third consecutive yearFive Gold Effies awarded overall The Monkeys has been named Effective Agency...
42nd AWARD Awards launches Call For Entries
The Australasian Writers and Art Directors Association (AWARD) has today announced its Call for Entries for the 42nd AWARD Awards. The deadline for entries is December 11. Last year saw a significantly expanded list of eligible categories and an overhaul of the AWARD...
Ready! Fire! Aim! Whatever happened to Strategy? APGWA & ACA present an evening with Jon Steel
The Account Planning Group WA and Advertising Council Australia are proud to present an intimate evening in Perth with legendary strategist Jon Steel who will share his compelling insights into the past, present and future of strategy. Over four decades and across...
AWARD School 2021 Application Workshops – insider tips, tricks and ammo!
The AWARD School Application Workshop is a comprehensive session where industry leaders will take you step-by-step through application tips, tricks, ammo and insider information. Essentially everything you need to know to give you a great shot at submitting the best...
Youngbloods get set for big year ahead
A rejuvenated national strategy to better empower young people in advertising is one of the key priorities for Youngbloods National Co-chairs Linh Diep and Matt Bladin in the coming year. They recently chatted with us about their upcoming plans. When Matt Bladin...
AWARD School National Top Student Oli Nicholson says: Just Do It!
When WA’s Oli Nicholson was crowned 2020 AWARD School National Top Student earlier this month, it was obvious to everyone watching our Facebook Live virtual ceremony that she was blown away with her win. Since then, she admits it still hasn't completely sunk in, but...
Meet Your AdSchool Lecturer: David Warren
With 17 years’ experience of marketing, brand and communications strategy, freelance strategist David Warren has established himself as one of the most effective strategists in our industry. AdSchool is excited to welcome David...
The challenges of running an ad agency during Stage 4 Lockdown
With Melbourne and much of Victoria still dealing with the harsh realities of Stage 4 Lockdown, running an ad agency presents huge challenges. But Belinda Murray, Managing Director of BWM Dentsu Melbourne, says there are also opportunities and surprises to be had....
The Communications Council relaunches as Advertising Council Australia
The Communications Council, Australia’s peak non-profit industry body representing companies in the advertising industry, has relaunched today with a new name, Advertising Council Australia (ACA).
Oli Nicholson named AWARD School 2020 National Top Student
West Australian Oli Nicholson has been named AWARD School 2020 National Top Student at an Australia-wide virtual ceremony held on Facebook Live on Wednesday night (12 August). Oli emerged as the winner ahead of more than 190 students in a year marked by major...
AWARD School Super Jury 2020 announced
The Australasian Writers and Art Directors Association (AWARD) has today announced the line-up of Australian and international ‘Super Jurors’ who will select the 2020 AWARD School national winner. The Super Jury members are; 1. Brigid Alkema: Executive Creative...
Inaugural Foundation Series wraps up to high praise
The first-ever Foundation Series of webinars featuring six of our industry’s leading lights in their various sectors has wrapped up, with high praise coming from those who attended the program. Over six highly engaging weeks, The Communications Council’s Foundation...
Paul Coles joins AdSchool
When it comes to client service, few in our industry are as highly regarded as BMF General Manager Paul Coles. Paul was the first presenter in TCC’s major webinar program The Foundation Series where he enthralled his audience of young people in our industry with his insights into how great client relationships are made. AdSchool is delighted that Paul has joined AdSchool as a Lecturer for the upcoming Account Management for Tomorrow course.
Karen Ferry on all things AWARD
Karen Ferry is stepping down from the AWARD Committee after three distinguished years marked by a number of outstanding achievements including her enormous and lasting contribution to AWARD School and AWARD Awards. We recently caught up with Karen for a chat about her time with AWARD and why the organisation matters so much to our industry.
Talking ISODATES
ISODATES is a new initiative presented by The Communications Council. A series of 12 intimate online conversations with the industry’s finest, ISODATES is aimed at providing our industry’s leaders of tomorrow with an exclusive opportunity to access the thinking and experience of today’s luminaries. We caught up for a brief isochat with Laura Aldington, CEO Host/Havas, the brains behind the unique ISODATES series.
At home with AWARD School
AWARD School heads, tutors, lecturers and students have gone above and beyond this year to meet the challenges posed by the forced move of the course online due to COVID-19. Student Sam Cooper from Clemenger BBDO in Melbourne, shares her AWARD School experiences so...